Michael Palin admitted he regretted leaving his dying wife to film docuseries.
September 24, 2024, published at 7:00 PM ET
Monty Python star Sir Michael Palin confessed that while he didn’t have many regrets in his life, there was one exception.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the legendary actor abandoned his dying wife Helen to film a travel documentary.
Palin, 81, reflected on the “difficult” period when the health of Helen, the mother of his three adult children, took a downward turn as he flew around the world.
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Palin traveled to North Korea and Iraq to film a docuseries for Channel 5 while Helen Gibbins battled kidney failure.
At the time, Helen had been suffering from a chronic illness for several years before she developed kidney failure.
While battling kidney failure, Palin traveled the world filming a Channel 5 documentary series on North Korea and Iraq.
Helen later died on May 2, 2023 at the Marie Curie Hospice in North London.
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Helen died in hospice on May 2, 2023.
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Palin recalled, “I don’t really regret it. Maybe towards the end, when I made the later travels to North Korea.
“Helen was less good then, unfortunately less good at looking after herself, and that was a somewhat difficult time.
He continued: “I don’t think she really wanted me to leave at the time, but she knew that my interest in travel and other people was very deep-seated, it wasn’t because I wanted to get away from home – it wasn’t that at all.”
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Palin admitted that Helen’s clothes were still “hanging in the closet” more than a year after her death.
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The Brian’s life Star recently admitted that his late wife’s clothes were still “in the closet” because they made him feel like she was “still here.”
Palin added that he enjoys seeing Helen’s belongings in their home because they remind him of the great times they shared together – and this was the reason he would never move out.
On the possibility of leaving the home they shared, he added: “I certainly don’t feel like that at the moment. Everything around me has a story or something that reminds me of the time we spent together, not chaos. way.
‘They’re just the props of a lifetime. Throw away all those props and I would be in a different play, playing a different character. And I don’t want to do that.
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Palin said he continues as if “Helen is still here.”
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He continued, “I know it seems strange, but I’m going to carry on as if Helen is still here. Her clothes are still in the closets. I don’t want to change my life because I don’t think she would want to either. It is still a nice house to return to, I feel her presence here.”
Palin and Helen first met when they were 16 years old. They later reunited at Oxford University and married when they were 22 years old.
Reflecting on their paths crossing again in college, Palin said, “You can see that fate was turning us very hard at that moment.”
The couple was married from 1966 until Helen’s death in 2023.
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